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San Diego Padres will host the Seattle Mariners on Monday, opening a two-game series between teams trying to keep pushing towards an all-star break in the fight.
Padres recovered from a 1-0 deficit after scoring four runs at the top of the ninth Sunday, winning 4-2 against the Los Angeles Dodgers and four final games. I saved. -The game set after dropping the first three to the leader of the National League West Division.
"It was a big win," said Padres Manager Bob Melvin, who finished the first half with a record of 47-34. "After losing the first three games in the series and finishing ninth with 1-0, we got the long-awaited boost.
Against the Mariners' visit to Auckland The 2-1 win was the fifth win in the last six games and the tenth win in the last 13 games. Seattle played three out of four games against A and then in the last four series. Winner.
"Pitching was today's name because it was all season," Mariners Manager Scott Selves said on June 19th, after 29-39, the team was 39. I said after reaching the midpoint with the -42 mark.
Right-handed Chris Flexen (4-8, 4.32 ERA) departs for Seattle. He defeated the Baltimore Oriole's 9-3 on Wednesday, allowing three strikeouts in six innings and three runs with seven hits in two walks.
However, Flexen was 21.21 ERA 0-2, straddling two appearances in his career with Padres, 12 runs (11 wins) and 3 in 4 2/3 innings. Allowed strikeouts and 5 walks. ..
San Diego competes with left-handed Sean Manaair (3-3, 3.92 ERA). He is 8-6 and ERA is 3.46, with 79 strikeouts and 27 walks in 15 appearances (all starts), always spanning 93 2/3 innings against the Mariners.
Padres was 3-2 in the last five starts of Manaair, he had 3.72 ERA and gave up less than three runs in four of these games.
For Padres, these games with Mariners are only two outside the National League West during the 19-game stretch leading up to the All-Star Break. Padres is so far 2-4 in the Road series against Diamond Bucks and Dodgers. Next to the Mariners is a set of four games against the Giants of San Diego.
Padres swept the three-game series against the Mariners in San Diego last year.
However, the Mariners did not have the center fielder Julio Rodriguez.
A few days after being named this month's American Lee Glucky for the second straight month, Rodriguez returned home on the first pitch of the game on Sunday, making his sixth double a decisive run. .. inning.
"We mention his name almost every day," Servais said of Rodriguez. "Keep an eye on him. He's so much fun to see and carries us."
Meanwhile, Manny Machad, after a terrible ankle turn in Colorado, 2 He returned to 3rd place in Padres in a week.
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